Marietta’s Top Shelf plans two ‘League’ books for 2012
Alan Moore announces new ‘League’ book, ‘Nemo: Heart of Ice.’
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Last week’s announcement that DC Comics would publish prequels to Watchmen, against the wishes of original author Alan Moore, drew attention to Moore’s work with famous fictional characters in Lost Girls and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Yesterday, Moore engaged in a two-and-a-half-hour webchat to raise funds for Cleveland’s Harvey Pekar Library Statue, and as io9 reported, announced a new League project for this year:
In the 48-page one-shot comic Nemo: Heart of Ice, which takes place in Antarctica in the 1920s, Jules Verne will collide with H.P. Lovecraft. “It takes place in Antarctica and the work of H.P. Lovecraft is a major component. You figure it out,” promised Moore. If all goes according to plan, Heart of Ice will be out by the end of 2012.
Chris Staros of Top Shelf Productions confirmed for me via email that Nemo: Heart of Ice would be published by the Marietta-based graphic novel company, in a co-production with Knockabout Comics. This will make two League-based Top Shelf books by Moore and artist Kevin O’Neill released by Top Shelf this year. Century: 2009, the final book in the century-spanning League trilogy, is due in June (and reportedly evokes the recently-created fictional worlds of “The West Wing” and Harry Potter, among others).
I’m particularly excited by Nemo: Heart of Ice, which Moore hints will resemble a mash-up of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In the Mouth of Madness.
Given that Guillermo Del Toro won’t be making his big-screen adaptation of Madness any time soon, Heart of Ice sounds like a great consolation prize.